My Own Worst Enemy

"My Own Worst Enemy"

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“In my case it was never about sabotaging myself. It was the simple answer just like Turk said; I had knocked up a girl on our first date and I don't have strong feelings for her and probably never will. And the only reason we're still together is because there is a kid involved, which means I'm gonna stay with her until the very end. Whether I love her or not.”— J.D.'s narration

"My Own Worst Enemy" is the first episode of Scrubs' seventh season. J.D. vows to attempt to be less self destructing. Elliot calls off the marriage to Keith. Dr. Cox goes out of his way to cure a patient. Janitor starts dating Lady.

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Finding themselves in a compromising position, J.D. and Elliot prepare to kiss. Elliot changes her mind at the last second, and they agree that it almost happened because they are both nervous about their current relationships. J.D. later realizes that he almost kissed Elliot because he always is self destructing his relationships. He then realizes he self destructs many other things in his life. He vows to attempt to be less self destructing. However, no one seems to care that he is successful in his efforts.

Meanwhile, Elliot calls off the marriage to Keith. As the entire hospital watches, she gives him back the ring. At the same time, Snoop Dogg Attending tells Josephine how he feels about her. After the break-up, Keith is very sour towards Elliot. When she confronts him in her house, he gets upset and they start yelling at each other. The yelling leads to kissing, which leads to sex. Back at the hospital, Elliot confides in Carla, who tells her she needs to call it off... again. She does and upsets Keith... again, who is sour with her... again.

Dr. Cox gets a new patient, Joe Hutnik who is very agreeable. He instantly gets on Dr. Cox's good side. When Dr. Cox finds out that the patient has lyme disease, he has Fun-Size Intern search him for tick bites. When she can't find any, he enlists Turk to search for any surgical issues. When Turk can't find anything wrong, Dr. Kelso demands they discharge the patient. They transfer him to dermatology, but Dr. Kelso finds out. Upon Turk's and Dr. Cox's request, Dr. Kelso asks the patient to leave himself, but likes him too much to kick him out. After Dr. Beardfacé gives them an unintended clue, they realize Fun-Size missed the tick bite - under the patient's hair.

Janitor is cornered by J.D. while he is holding flowers. He says they are for his girlfriend. He yells at a woman at the other end of the hall, and says her name is Lady. J.D. does not believe him, but in the end her name really is Lady, and she is dating Janitor.

The same television season which this episode aired (Fall 2007), NBC also began airing a new series starring Christian Slater entitled "My Own Worst Enemy".

In the "House M.D." episode that aired two weeks later there is also a patient with borreliosis and they find the erythema migraines under his head of hair too.

At the start of the episode, when J.D. and Elliot almost kiss "Alive With the Glory of Love" by Say Anything is playing, this is same song used at the end of the "My Point of No Return", where the scene of J.D. and Elliot's almost kiss started.

Discontinued error: When Dr.Cox say "If you wanna lose the nickname you have to have shave the beard..." you can see Dr. Kelso is laying down on Dr Cox's legs but when Beardface leaves the room Dr, Kelso is sitting next to Cox.

In this episode J.D. states that he clearly saw Turk having sex with his college girlfriend Stacy. However, in previous season, Turk and J.D. have several arguments whether Turk slept with Stacy or not. They both stated that J.D. had seen them just lying in a bed.